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Asian Australian Studies Research Network – MEMBERSHIP LISTING • The AASRN membership listing is provided in good faith to facilitate collaboration within our research network. • Members should feel free to connect with other members in relevant ways. • Unsolicited emails should NEVER be sent to our network members by outside parties. Any material thought to be of relevance to our membership can be sent to [email protected] ALL MEMBERS should subscribe to (or follow) 1 or more of the following to keep in touch with AASRN activities/news: o Twitter: @aasrn o Facebook group o Subscribe to AASRN newsblog (see top right hand column of webpage) Lastname Firstname Title Institution Short biog CONTACT Allen Margaret Professor University of Adelaide I work on India-Australia links and relations c 1880-1940s. I am investigating Indian Email: Emerita men living in Australia under the White Australia policy and Australian missionaries in [email protected] India etc. Website: Recent publications include: http://www.adelaide.edu.au/dire 'Shadow letters and the Karnana letter: Indians negotiate the White Australia Policy, ctory/margaret.allen 1901-1921' Life Writing, volume 8, no. 2, June 2011 pp. 187-202. ‘”That’s the Modern Girl”: Missionary women and modernity in Calcutta, c1907- c 1940’ Itinerario, 34 (3) 2010, pp. 83-96. Alvarez Ivy Ms None/sole arts Ivy Alvarez is the author of Disturbance (Seren, 2013), Mortal (Red Morning Press, Email: practitioner 2006) and three chapbooks. A recipient of writing residencies from MacDowell Colony [email protected] (US), Hawthornden Castle (UK) and Fundación Valparaiso (Spain), her poems appear in journals and anthologies in many countries and online, with several translated into Twitter: Russian, Spanish, Japanese and Korean. @IvyAlvarez A visiting lecturer at the University of Chester in 2010, she has served as editor and Website: guest editor for Cordite Poetry Review, qarrtsiluni and Cha. Born in the Philippines http://www.ivyalvarez.com and raised in Australia, she has lived in Wales, UK since 2004. Ang Chin Geok Dr Not applicable PhD (Creative Writing). Fulltime writer, fiction and non-fiction. Author Aung San Suu Email: Kyi: Towards a New Freedom (Prentice Hall, 1998); Wind and Water (Random House, [email protected] 1997). Currently working on The Heaven and Earth Brother trilogy, a suite of novels about the two great Chinese revolutions of the twentieth century. On LinkedIn Antoinette Michelle Dr Australian National Dr Michelle Antoinette is a researcher of modern and contemporary Asian art and has University previously taught tertiary-level courses on Asian art and museums. She is currently an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at The Australian National University, researching networks of contemporary Asian art and museums as part of the ARC- AASRN Membership listing – as at 22 August 2014 1 funded project, "The Rise of New Cultural Networks in Asia in the Twenty-First Century". Her work also investigates Asian artists and Asian art in Australia, and the influence of Asian-Australian artists in redefining the contemporary Australian art context. Her forthcoming book (Rodopi) explores contemporary Southeast Asian art on the international stage since the 1990s. Apperley Thomas Dr University of Melbourne Tom Apperley, Ph.D. is a researcher of digital media technologies. His previous writing Email: has covered digital games, mobile phones, digital literacies and pedagogies, and the [email protected] digital divide. Tom is currently a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne. He is the editor of the peer-reviewed journal, Digital Culture and Education, his book Twitter: Gaming Rhythms: Play and Counterplay from the Situated to the Global was published @T0MM7 by The Institute of Network Cultures in September 2010. academia.edu: http://unimelb.academia.edu/Th omasApperley Archer Carol Dr Lingnan University Carol Archer's website address is www.carolarcher.com. She has lived in Hong Kong Email: and Macao since 1998. Her solo and collaborative works have been exhibited in [email protected] Australia, Macao, Hong Kong, China, Japan and Italy. Recent exhibitions include ‘placemarks’ (Lingnan University Fong Sum Wood Library, Hong Kong, 2011), ‘Time with the Sky’ (Artist Commune, Cattle Depot Artist Village, Hong Kong, 2010), ‘Out of Thin Air: collaborative and solo work’ (Lingnan University Fong Sum Wood Library, Hong Kong, 2010), ‘Near and Far and Mostly Macao,’ (S.W. Anthony Lau Exhibition Hall, University of Macau, Macao, 2009), ‘Reciprocal Interference’ (Podspace, Newcastle, Australia, 2008) and ‘Knot, Touch, Trace’, (CCI, Macao Museum of Art, Macao, 2007). Archer teaches in the Visual Studies Department at Lingnan University. Her current research is on contemporary collaborative painting. Atherton Cassandra Dr Deakin University Cassandra Atherton is a Lecturer in Literary Studies and Creative Writing at Deakin Email: University. She was awarded the Felix Meyer Fellowship to study the floating world in [email protected]. Japan and has produced a number of creative works based on the interviews she au undertook with salarymen. Her novel, book of poetry and the journal she edited were published in Japan. Her research, since the recent tsunami and earthquake, concerns LinkedIn: an examination of community and the environment in Japan. She is writing a series of http://au.linkedin.com/pub/cassa articles on re-building communities and the concept of memorialisation. Her aim is to ndra-atherton/63/b8b/991 focus specifically on Hiroshima and Sendai as sites of disaster, tragedy and ultimately renewal. Personal website: http://cassandra-atherton.com Aung Thin Michelle Ms University of Adelaide Michelle is a writer and PhD candidate at the University of Adelaide. Her novel, The Email: Monsoon Bride, was published in 2011. [email protected]. au Balachandran Indu Manager, Information and Cultural I work in cultural development with diverse communities, and am a classical musician Email: Strategic Exchange, NSW in the Carnatic tradition (veena, vocal). My interests are to support the development [email protected] Development of a strong cultural program in Australia that resonates with the growing South Asian communities the the country, and raises the engagement of non South Asian Website: communities in this dialogue. http://www.ice.org.au AASRN Membership listing – as at 22 August 2014 2 Barrett Michelle Ms Curtin University Michelle Barrett is a PhD candidate at Curtin University, Perth whose thesis examines Email: the lived experience of people who identify broadly as ‘Eurasian’ in Australia – with a [email protected] particular focus on those who have immigrated from South and South East Asia. Michelle’s work is informed by hybridity theory, border studies and critical whiteness Academia.edu: studies. Her research interests include ‘mixed race’ studies, postcolonial and diasporic http://curtin.academia.edu/Mich theory, multiculturalism, and material culture. She holds a Bachelor of Social Science elleBarrett with first class honours in Anthropology and History and is currently tutoring at Curtin. Bautista Julius Dr National University of Julius Bautista is an anthropologist whose research interest is in religion in Southeast Email: Singapore Asia, particularly Christianity in the Philippines. He teaches courses in religious [email protected] studies, politics and culture at the Department of Southeast Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore where he is a Senior Lecturer. Concurrently, he is an Associate at the Asia Research Institute's Religion and Globalisation in Asian Contexts Cluster. His broader research interests are:• Comparative world religion• Religion, the state and politics in Asia• The material culture of Southeast Asia• The social and cultural meanings of pain• Ethnographic practice and methodology. Bobis Merlinda Dr University of Wollongong Writer-performer Merlinda Bobis has received various awards and prizes for her Website: prose, poetry and plays. Among them the Prix Italia; the Australian Writers' Guild http://www.merlindabobis.com.a Award and the Ian Reed Radio Drama Prize for Rita's Lullaby; the Steele Rudd Award u/ for the Best Published Collection of Australian Short Stories; the Philippine National Book Award and the Judges’ Choice Award in the Bumbershoot Arts Festival, Seattle for White Turtle (Australian edition) / The Kissing (US edition); the Pamana Presidential Award; and the Philippine Balagtas Award. Her first novel Banana Heart Summer was short-listed for the Australian Literary Society Gold Medal and her poetry collection Summer Was A Fast Train Without Terminals for The Age Poetry Book Award. Her plays have been performed in Australia, Philippines, France, China, Thailand and the Slovak Republic. Her next novel The Solemn Lantern Maker was published in March 2008, and Fish-Hair Woman in 2012. She teaches creative writing at the University of Wollongong. She is originally from the Philippines. Breyley Gay Dr Monash University Gay Breyley is an ARC DECRA Fellow (2013-15) in the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music at Monash University, with a research project entitled ‘A historical study of modern Iran and its diaspora through the music, career and cultural significance of pop star Googoosh’. With Sasan Fatemi, Breyley is co-author of Iranian Music and Popular Entertainment: From Motrebi to Losanjelesi and Beyond (Routledge, 2013). Her other publications